4 characters Idiom and proverb 9 609

Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「束身自愛」, with details below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「束身自愛」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

It means to restrain oneself and cultivate oneself. It means to restrain yourself and not get involved with bad people and bad things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shù shēn zì ài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chuk1 san1 ji6 oi3

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